No, they're sufficient. See? I can assert things baselessly too.
Both of these responses are part of the answer to your question, but they're not the core of the answer. Before I get to that, I want to preface what I'm about to say by stating my position that I don't believe there's any such thing as actual democracy. It has never existed, and if it ever did the results would probably be catastrophic. In practice, being democratic means being an American stooge; the terms are perfectly interchangeable. I hold democracy - both as an ideal and in practice - in contempt.
The unipolar moment of American hegemony following the fall of the Soviet Union has been a blight on history. America and its flunkies ran rampant across the world, destroying country after country on the whims of their psychotic religious impulses. But by far the greatest and longest lasting harm they've done has been implanting their religion into impressionable minds around the world. Across the breadth of the Earth, you see people striving for democracy. Not just that, they do it in almost identical ways using the same techniques and chanting the same slogans. I almost wonder if there's a holy book for democracy - a Bible or Quran these people are all reading from, because they're more brainwashed drones than the crudest caricature of an adherent of an Abrahamic faith.
No matter the ethnicity, language, culture, or nationality, it's the same drone. That's the real Clone Army. At every mass gathering, you see them holding up the same signs (in English, of course), shouting the same banal slogans, waving the same Western flags, expecting mighty whitey to come rescue them from the local security forces. There's more variation between local McDonald's franchises than there is among these drones. A particularly galling example I recall was during the riots in Myanmar, when some drone was talking about being inspired by Jefferson. Yes, the genocidal slaver Jefferson. I have never wanted to reach through a screen and slap someone as much as I did then - what I would have given to be able to tell that idiot that Jefferson would be too busy fucking his slaves to bother with you.
That's the sorry state of the world today, but it's begun to change. Which brings us to Ukraine... in truth, I know too little and care even less about it to really have anything against it. Except that it's yet another would-be democracy populated by drones. Given the views I've just outlined, my feeling toward Ukrainians echoes Americans' feelings toward Chinese: complete dehumanization. Russian cluster bombs could saw their children in half and my only thought would be "you brought this on yourselves."
Ukraine will be a lesson by example. Slowly but surely, the drones will learn that America is not a titan astride the Earth and mighty whitey is not coming to save them. They will learn that America is just a con artist and they are its victims. Then maybe one day the disgusting codependency where the drones look to America for identity and meaning and America looks to its supplicants to feed its narcissism will come to an end.
Even if it takes decades, people will learn that "democracy" is a magical word - uttering it opens a portal to Hell.
TL;DR: What I have against Ukraine is ideological.
